Evaluating carbon sequestration for conservation agriculture and tillage systems in Cambodia using the EPIC model

Autor: Kieu Ngoc Le, Lyda Hok, Jaehak Jeong, Manoj Jha, João Carlos de Moraes Sá, Stéphane Boulakia, Luca Doro, Philip W. Gassman, Manuel R. Reyes
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Crop residue
Rotation culturale
Manihot esculenta
Glycine max
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture
Travail du sol
Teneur en matière organique
Conservation des sols
01 natural sciences
Cropping system
Cover crop
F07 - Façons culturales
Ecology
food and beverages
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
Tillage
séquestration du carbone
Rendement des cultures
agriculture de conservation
P33 - Chimie et physique du sol
Conservation agriculture
Oryza sativa
Matière organique du sol
Plante de couverture
Légumineuse
Plante fourragère
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Modélisation des cultures
Soil organic matter
Crop yield
fungi
Modèle de simulation
Soil carbon
Agronomy
040103 agronomy & agriculture
0401 agriculture
forestry
and fisheries

Environmental science
Système de culture
Animal Science and Zoology
Agronomy and Crop Science
Zdroj: Europe PubMed Central
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
ISSN: 0167-8809
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2017.09.009
Popis: Soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration was evaluated for several long-term rain-fed cropping systems for conservation agriculture (CA) and conservation tillage (CT) in Cambodia using the Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model. The mean crop yield, biomass and SOC stocks of four treatments and three replication in each primary cropping system (rice, soybean and cassava) were used for calibration and validation during the period 2009–2013. The CT and CA1 treatments were assigned to continuous cropping of primary crops. CA2 and CA3 treatments were assigned to rotated primary crops with maize. In all CA treatments, forage or legume cover crops were prior planted and intercropped with the primary crops to maintain full soil cover. The results show that EPIC successfully simulated crop yields, biomass, and SOC. However, the model tended to underestimate SOC in the CT treatments and overestimate SOC in the CA2 and CA3 treatments. Crop residue was found to highly influence SOC sequestration. Sediment loss in the CT treatments was found to be four times greater than CA treatments due to the CT tillage effects. The 20-year future simulations, using historical weather and automatically generated by EPIC, showed a decrease trend in SOC stocks in all CT treatments and an increase trend in most CA treatments, with the greatest increase for CA2 and CA3 treatments. Thus, the CA treatments in combination with the maize rotation were demonstrated to be more efficient to manage SOC sequestration over CA with one continuous primary crop.
Databáze: OpenAIRE